Rotten Tomatoes lied to me again. The cast of the Australian Pride and Prejudice was made up of someone who looked like Zoey Deutch but wasn’t Zoey Deutch, someone who looked like Jesse Plemons but wasn’t Jesse Plemons, and someone who looked like Bette Midler but was definitely not Bette Midler. The story basically revolved around that supposedly wild, fake Zoey Deutch and her wish to become a writer in 19th-century Australian society. She goes from a farm girl to a family relative’s posh house to find a husband, and that’s when the screenwriters decide to show us how wild she is:…
Author: Zoé Mahfouz
Zoé Mahfouz
Zoé Mahfouz is an award-winning French actress, content creator, screenwriter, and writer whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. She holds a Master's degree in Screenwriting from the London Film School and has received international film festival recognition for her comedy screenplays. Her work has appeared in over 90 journals worldwide, with pieces translated and anthologized in Japanese publications, notably Ginyu and The Asahi Shimbun. Her published work is held in the collections of Harvard, Yale, and Stanford University Libraries. She is the author of the critically acclaimed, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize–nominated ADHD in D Minor (North Meridian Press, 2026), acquired for the collection of Brown University Library, and hailed by Kirkus Reviews for a narrative voice that is "sharp, caustic, and hyper-attuned to the cadences of modern clap-backs and viral tweets."